Divine Inspirations Socialized
Meditations and Religions
in the Waters of Time
Mitchell D. Ginsberg

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Divine Inspirations Socialized takes us into the worlds of religion, spirituality, and contemplation. It explores the ways in which our great world meditative practices and respected religions have survived and been transformed through their adaptation by different societies, that is, through their becoming socialized..
Each society has its own concerns, ideals, group practices or societal mores, hopes, and worries; with these giving them a basic orientation to the world, societies can adapt what they become familiar with, from any inspiring teachings, practical wisdom, creative ideas, and even tools, instruments, inventions, and forms of warfare.
This selectivity brings about a variety of forms in which meditative practices and religious inspiration are manifested, being adapted so that they are harmonious with the values and concerns of each society, and are in this way, tamed and domesticated, disciplined and made useful to the given society.
All of these adaptions take place in the changing contexts in which they may find themselves, in the vast waters of time.
With a fresh questioning and commentary throughout, this work makes use of original core texts and derivative commentaries from the world’s religious and spiritual traditions and from scholarship in a wide range of fields of inquiry.

Effective Psychotherapy
The Contribution of Hellmuth Kaiser
Fourth edition
With Foreword by Allen J. Enelow, M.D., and Leta McKinney Adler, Ph.D.
Louis B. Fierman, editor (First Edition)
Mitchell D. Ginsberg, editor (Fourth Edition)

One of the most creative, inspired, and inspiring books in its field, this work offers extended reflections on what makes for effective psychotherapy.

The author, Hellmuth Kaiser, trained at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute in the 1920s, where his analyst was Gustav Bally and his supervisors were Karen Horney, Sándor Radó, Wilhelm Reich, and Hanns Sachs. He then continued with further analytic work at the world’s first psychoanalytic clinic, Berlin’s Sanatorium Schloss Tegel, directed by Ernst Simmel.
Kaiser’s career and life, like those of his colleagues, were radically impacted by the coming into power in Germany of the National Socialist Government and the establishing of the Third Reich, in which Freudian analysis was systematically uprooted in Europe; Kaiser left Germany in 1933. In his later years, after teaching at the Menninger Clinic, yet no longer considering himself a psychoanalyst, he shifted from psychoanalytic theories and practices and instead focused on the treatment process itself.
Kaiser’s writings in this work, first published in 1965 but later out-of-print for decades, offer us a sourcebook in a challenging, thoroughly non--dogmatic, open-minded questioning of processes in psychotherapeutic interactions to be observed no matter which school or tradition of therapy we adopt.
This edition contains the full text of the first edition along with new essays to bring the reader up to date with current ideas and reflections on the powerful vision offered to us by Hellmuth Kaiser; offered as well are two new significant translations from the German: (1) the 1934 critique by Kaiser’s analyst, Gustav Bally, of the relationship of Carl Gustav Jung to the then-newly-Nazified world of German psychotherapy, and (2) the 1958 German-language interview of Kaiser by Kurt Eissler, the founder of the Sigmund Freud Archives, only released from closed files and made available in 2013, carried out here making focused use of the original 1958 reel-to-reel audio recording of the interview.
Reviews found on the book’s first pages act as a further invitation to this unusually creative and inspiring therapist.

Published: March 2018
Length: 390 pdf pages (6'' x 9'')
ISBN: 978-1-938459-67-2; 978-1-938459-70-2